A man was found slain inside a burned treehouse near Orting and a woman was shot and injured nearby early Monday, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department said. A suspect was arrested near the scene.
Deputies received a 911 call at 3:27 a.m. Monday from a man reporting that a woman has been shot and transported by the suspect to a home on Pioneer Way East in the Orting area, the sheriff’s department said.
The woman, who had been shot in the foot, told deputies that she and a man had been shot by a male acquaintance armed with the rifle during a confrontation in a treehouse on the other side of the Carbon River.
Deputies were familiar with the treehouse, the department said, because of frequent transient activity.